Eric Johnson
GS2745 Strategies
October 8, 2014
5:18pm

The new technology in my field that I decided to summarize was electronic paper. This topic stood out to me because I actually work for a digital document management company. Although we service paper work (hard copies), we really bank on scanning documents, so that our clients can read those scanned documents onto a pdf. In my opinion, going paperless is the way to go. Going electronic, saves time and effort. I’d rather do things with a click of a button, then going through endless file cabinets and boxes to look for certain documents. In this paper I will summarize what I analyzed on the article that I chose.

I really had no idea electronic paper was around for over 20 years. In fact, electronic paper was created in 1975 by Nick Sheridon at XEROX PARC. Since then companies such as Amazon and Sony have literally taken over the e reader market. One advantage to electronic paper is that it requires minimal energy to work. Also, the display quality looks just like a printed page. However, the biggest challenge for electronic paper now is to obtain better quality for color. The main reason is because of the cost. According to the article, current e paper technology cannot render moving images. (Kroeker, 2009) In addition Sheridon stated, “Color is not easy to do, and most of the monochrome technologies cannot be modified to do good quality color. New invention is needed (Koreker, 2009). Pia was the first color e reader, but it could only display 260,000 colors. Which means they have a long way to go to catch up with a desktop monitor, which can display 16.7 million colors. Another company that is on the rise is Plastic Logic. Their reader supports an 8X 11.5 inch screen, with 3G and Wi-Fi connection.

In conclusion this was a very short article so I really could not elaborate too much. However, I am intrigued to see how electronic paper will unfold in the next 20 years. The article was a little boring when it started talking about different kinds of inks and how it is made. However, I am a big fan e paper because I work in a similar industry.
Works Cited
Kroeker, K. L. (2009). Electronic Paper's Next Chapter. Communications of the ACM, 1-4.

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